Julian Brave Noisecat

Sometimes they do sing that for La Jolla, so that counts.

He was in his 20s, early 20s.

Well, when you were called the garbage can kid when you were growing up, you know, there's a lot of stuff to run from.

And that was just the beginning of his story.

You know, he had a very troubling childhood.

It was a dysfunctional time to be an Indian anywhere in North America and particularly on the Canem Lake Res where

Our people were really messed up by what happened at St.

Joseph's Mission.

People were dying left and right.

There was all kinds of abuse.

Alcoholism was rampant.

I mean, it was a pretty dark era.

So he got out essentially as soon as he could.

He went to Vancouver where he attended art school, which was a complete accident.

He actually was intending to take classes to become a P.E.

teacher.

And then the campus that was closest to where he lived, they didn't actually have those classes, so they just enrolled him in some art classes.

And he ended up getting really good at this technique of printmaking called stone lithography.

So he went on to Emily Carr College and then found his way into a job at a printmaking, fine art print press in New York called Tyler Graphics, which is actually where he moved and then met my mother in a bar outside the city.

He does, yes, in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian.